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even two out of three children from this family were born in Jakarta. It is not surprising that they adapt to Indonesian culture and environment.They knew
how to compromise and communicate well with Indonesian people such as the housekeeper, neighborhood, and coworkers. Some of family members also use
English to communicate in particular place and condition. Even local language like Javanese is also used in their daily conversation sometimes. Those
conditions have been causing multilingual environment in this family. The researcher is interested in language phenomenon that happens to
the last child of this family. He is currently twelve years old. He studies at an international school in Semarang. It is surprising to know that the boy could
use more than two languages in his daily conversation. The languages that the boy uses are Korean, English, Indonesian, and a bit of Javanese. This
phenomenon catches the researcher’s attention to conduct a research based on the language fact. Therefore, the researcher brought the phenomenon as a
sociolinguistic research entitled “Code Switching in Utterances of Korean Multilingual Child A Case Study of Korean Multilingual Child Who Living in
Semarang”.
1.2 Research Question
Based on the background of the study, the researcher can make two research questions as follows:
1.2.1 What kind of code switching types are found in the Korean boy’s utterances?
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1.2.2 What are the factors that influence the Korean boy to switch his code?
1.3 Purposes of the Study
The purposes of this research are: 1.3.1 To identify the types of code switching in the Korean boy’s
utterances. 1.3.2 To figure out the factors that influence code switching in the
utterances of the Korean boy.
1.4 Previous Study
Previous studies play role to support the researcher for making a good quality research. This sub-chapter presents some previous researches that are
used as reference of current research. Researcher can find the gap from previous studies to refer to the weaknesses that can become reference in
making better research. On the other hand, the purpose of this sub-chapter is to prevent plagiarisms that influence the quality on the result of this research.
The first research that became reference of this study is that research result of Kim Ji Hyun 2014 entitled “Analysis of Code Switching between
Korean Course Student and Korean Natives in FIB UI”. This researcher analyzed code switching done by Indonesia and Korean people in University
of Indonesia UI. The content of this research describes the phenomena of code switching that have been done by Indonesian students majoring Korean
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language in purpose for practicing their ability of the native. Moreover, many Korean BIPA’sBahasa Indonesia Program untuk orang Asing students in UI
increase the willingness of local students for practicing their Korean language ability and code switching happened in their interactive activity. The process
of collecting data in this research was quite good because Kim took the data naturally. Then, the point that makes this research different from my research
is the object of the study. Kim’s research concerned on code switching that is spoken by both Indonesian and Korean people in their conversation.
Second research as the reference of this current research is a study of code switching at Pecinan area in Semarang. This research entitled “Code
Switching on Chinese Descendants Conversation” was composed by Veronica in 2011. In her research, Veronica aimed to describe phenomena of code
switching among Chinese descendants in Semarang. Other than that, this research has a purpose to show the most Chinese dialect used by Chinese
descendants in Semarang. Then, another research that becomes third reference of this research is
a study composed by Susenda 2012. The object of this study is Bajawanese people who live in Semarang. According to the study, Bajawa is a name of a
tribe in Bajawa sub-district, Ngada regency, Flores, NTT. Susenda aimed to identify the types and kinds of factor that influenced Bajawanese tribe to use
code switching. Researcher took thirty Bajawanese people with different background as objects of the study.
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Those three previous research studies said that some researchers have done research about code switching before. However, every research has
difference in some matters such as object, processing the data, even in purpose of the research itself. This current research is about a phenomenon of a Korean
child who has been attempting code switching in his daily life. The boy is living in multilingual environment that forced him to adapt with language
used by people surround him. That is why, this research would rather focus on an object only but the identification would be discussed deeply.
1.5 Scope of the Study
